Fast Facts

History

• Founded in 1919
• Accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools
  of Business (AACSB International) in 1920

Enrollment (Fall 2007)

• 1,716 undergraduate students
  44 percent female, 26 percent minority
  
  
• 75 full-time MBA, 235 iMBA students, and 34 PhD students
  35 percent female, 22 percent minority

Degrees Awarded 2007

• Baccalaureate 416
• Master’s 131
• Doctoral 5

Faculty

• Whitman has more than 70 full-time faculty

Undergraduate Program Ranking

• #41 US News & World Report (2008)
• #52 BusinessWeek (2008)

Graduate Program Ranking

• #62 US News & World Report (2008)

Specialty Programs Ranking

• Top Ten Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
  Fortune Small Business (2007)
• #16 Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
  Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review (2007)
• #18 Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
  US News & World Report (2007)

Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program Ranking

• #9 US News & World Report (2008)
• #12 Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review (2007)

Supply Chain Management Program Ranking

• #10 Supply Chain Management Review

Accounting Program Ranking

• #10 The Chronicle of Higher Education

15 Student Clubs and Organizations, including:

• The American Marketing Association
• APICS
• Beta Alpha Psi
• Beta Gamma Sigma
• Delta Sigma Pi
• The E-Club
• The Franklin Student Group
• The Investment Club
• The MBA Student Association
• The National Association of Black Accountants
• The Real Estate Club
• The Retail Association
• Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
• The Whitman Consulting Club
• The Whitman Peers for Presentable Presentations (PPP)
  

Centers and Institutes

• The Ballentine Investment Institute
• The George E. Bennett Center for Tax Research
• The Robert H. Brethen Operations Management Institute
• Center for Ethics and Leadership
• The Michael J. Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship
• The H. H. Franklin Center for Supply Chain Management
• The Olivia and Walter Kiebach Center for International Business Studies
• The James D. Kuhn Real Estate Center
• The Harry E. Salzberg Memorial Program
• The Earl V. Snyder Innovation Management Center
• Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

Alumni of Note

• Martin Whitman '49 BS, founder and co-chief investment officer, Third Avenue Fund
• Daniel D’Aniello '68 BS, founding partner, The Carlyle Group
• Honorable Alfonse D’Amato '59 BS, former U.S. Senator (N.Y.)
• Honorable Craig Benson '78 MBA, former Governor (N.H.) and founder of Cabletron
• Honorable Warren Rudman '52 BS, former U.S. Senator (N.H)
• Arthur Rock '48, venture capitalist, principal, Arthur Rock & Company, and founder of Intel
• Ruth Colvin '59 BS, founder, Literacy Volunteers of America